Test Engineer Contracts in the East Midlands

Test Engineer
England > East Midlands

The median Test Engineer daily rate in the East Midlands is £303 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 74 93
Rank change year-on-year +32 +19 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 24 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.14% 0.58% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.34% 0.62% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 6 8
10th Percentile £218 £269 £256
25th Percentile £230 £365 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £303 £375 £313
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +20.00% -33.86%
75th Percentile £445 £397 £365
90th Percentile £538 £400 £382
England median daily rate £430 £513 £463
% change year-on-year -16.10% +10.81% +11.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East Midlands with a recognized job title 719 973 1,389
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 94.10% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 745 1,014
10th Percentile £164 £213 £172
25th Percentile £260 £325 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +5.88% +15.02%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £513
90th Percentile £625 £700 £600
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 64 94
10th Percentile £12.13 £11.80 £9.52
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
Median hourly rate £17.70 £20.16 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +18.59% +13.33%
75th Percentile £25.18 £30.50 £24.00
90th Percentile £51.91 £63.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
% change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%

Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured Test Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Test Engineer in the East Midlands

Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Test Engineer in the East Midlands

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Engineer in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Engineer in the East Midlands

Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Engineer in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Test Engineer in the East Midlands

Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire +21 12 £350 +75.00%
Derbyshire - 7 £245 - 2
Nottinghamshire +11 5 £440 +17.33%
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Test Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Test Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 12 (50.00%) Conflict Management
2 12 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (50.00%) Degree
2 12 (50.00%) Time Management
2 12 (50.00%) NVQ Level 3
3 10 (41.67%) Test Automation
4 7 (29.17%) Test Scripting
5 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
5 5 (20.83%) AWS
5 5 (20.83%) Cucumber
5 5 (20.83%) Python
5 5 (20.83%) Java
5 5 (20.83%) Scrum
5 5 (20.83%) Agile
6 4 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
7 3 (12.50%) DevOps
7 3 (12.50%) GitHub
7 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (12.50%) Software Testing
7 3 (12.50%) ISTQB
7 3 (12.50%) JUnit
7 3 (12.50%) Performance Testing
7 3 (12.50%) ISEB
7 3 (12.50%) JMeter
7 3 (12.50%) Data Design
8 2 (8.33%) QA
8 2 (8.33%) Integration Testing

Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) GitHub
2 3 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Cucumber
2 3 (12.50%) JMeter
2 3 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 14 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 12 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (50.00%) Conflict Management
1 12 (50.00%) Time Management
2 10 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 7 (29.17%) Test Scripting
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) Scrum
5 3 (12.50%) Data Design
5 3 (12.50%) DevOps
5 3 (12.50%) Performance Testing
5 3 (12.50%) Software Testing
6 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 2 (8.33%) Integration Testing
6 2 (8.33%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (8.33%) Traceability Matrix
6 2 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Java
1 5 (20.83%) Python
1 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (50.00%) Degree
1 12 (50.00%) NVQ Level 3
2 4 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) ISEB
3 3 (12.50%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft